Vanessa Di Lego

Vanessa Di Lego

Research Group: Health and Longevity

Phone: +43 1 51581 - 7741

E-Mail: Vanessa.DiLego(at)oeaw.ac.at

Vanessa Di Lego is interested in issues related to health and mortality, specifically the methodological challenges and gender gaps in mortality, as well as in the longevity of specific subgroups and selection in mortality studies. In 2018, she joined the Health and Longevity research group headed by Dr. Marc Luy at the Vienna Institute of Demography as a research scientist. In the framework of the ERC project “Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy: Understanding its Measurement and Estimation Sensitivity’’, Vanessa Di Lego is mainly performing sensitivity analysis of healthy life expectancy indicators regarding different measurement and estimation methods.

Vanessa Di Lego holds a bachelor degree in Social Sciences from the Minas Gerais State University in Brazil, and a Master’s and Doctorate degree in Demography from the Centre of Development and Regional Planning (CEDEPLAR-UFMG, Brazil).

Selected Publications:

Vanessa di Lego, Miguel Sanchez-Romero & Alexia Prskawetz. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 vaccines on the Case Fatality Rate: The importance of monitoring breakthrough infections. International Journal Of Infectious Diseases, 119, 178-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.03.05
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di Lego V. (2021). Health expectancy indicators: what do they measure?. Cadernos Saúde Coletiva, ahead of print, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1590/1414-462X202199010376
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Nepomuceno M. R., di Lego V. & Turra C. M. (2021). Gender disparities in health at older ages and their consequences for well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Vienna Yearbook Of Population Research, 19, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2021.res2.1
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Sanchez-Romero M., di Lego Goncalves V., Prskawetz A. & L. Queiroz B. (2021). An indirect method to monitor the fraction of people ever infected with COVID-19: An application to the United States. Plos One, 16, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245845
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Research Areas

Health and Longevity

Areas of Expertise

Formal demography
Differential longevity and mortality of subgroups
Life table techniques

curriculum vitae

publications

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